This year’s stronger relationship with all the Member States and the active role of the Council and his President Mr Chatterjee, together with full support of the host country’s government and ICPE employees led to excellent results. I have to thank all the Member States’ representatives and the Government of Slovenia for full support to our activities.

We have a privilege to be able to share valuable experiences of our Honorable President Dr Anton Vratuša and our different partners around the world. Our team is now consolidated which has contributed greatly to a succesful year. As a part of UN system of development organisations we are proud to assist countries with their development.

The High Level Symposium on Public Enterprises, ICAM project and Council meeting which consolidated our strategic framework were most visible parts of our activities. Another notable event was the 35th Anniversary of ICPE, under the patronage of the President of the Republic of Slovenia Dr Danilo Türk. Additionally, a lot of effort was put into building a new team, since most of the long term, devoted employees retired.

The clear direction is to build a reliable, results oriented, equal opportunities intergovernmental organisation, to follow ICPE’s motto “lean, clean and slim”, and also to motivate everybody and gain new partners. One of ICPE’s focuses is the efficiency of public sector enterprises as development leaders and also as the best partners of private business.

Another one is to foster corporate governance of companies, as well as to increase the companies’ awareness of public administration’s competitiveness.

ICPE’s restructuring process is over and our highly appreciated and praised activities of the past oblige the present team to build up as an important development partner by networking companies and development strategies. This is not only in accordance with MDGs but we essentially try to find a way to help ordinary people to truly live happier and have a better future through the provision and encouragement of economic activities.